I have been waiting for this day for 1 week and 4 days now. I finally get to see my leg again, and more importantly I get to see the wound! but when it came time to drive…excuse me, get driven to the doctors, I started getting nervous. it has been an odd few days. On Wednesday night I woke up in the middle of the night with a twitching or fluttering feeling in the calf. Thought nothing of it, but when I woke up Ikept hearing my doctors voice in my head “when i sewed it together the first time i moved your ankle the stitching came un-done so I had to overlap the tendon…” Wait could that fluttering be the stitches coming undone? called the doctors office, the PA told me that it is possible but if I am not in pain and running a fever to not be worried. so Friday rolls along, Friday the 13th. while getting my coffee ready in the morning my crutch hits a small drop of water on the floor and slips out. Its the right crutch, my bad leg, so what does Matthew do? you guessed it plant the foot to keep from falling. OH S*&% pulled the leg up after maybe a second or two, started sweating and got nervous and scared but i waited for a minute…no pain…a little sore…didn’t hear a pop…think I am alright. WHEW I am seeing the doctor Monday I’ll wait till then to talk to him. Spent most of the day Friday in my wheelchair (am I the only one that rented a wheelchair for my NWB time?) So as Monday 3:30 approaches i am getting nervous that he’ll take the splint off and look and say let’s start over
Monday 4:00 PM doc comes in I tell him my concerns. To put anyone else’s mind at ease he did tell me that to re-rupture at this point it would take quite a bit of stress or trauma to the tendon. Looks at the wound does a Thompson test and BINGO! the foot moves. The tendon is still there. He told me the wound looks great no evidence of infection I went from a splint to a fiberglass cast for two more weeks and we will see from there. I still have to plan on more or less 6 weeks no weight bearing and then probably 2 weeks after that to start PT. The way he had to overlap the tendons he is still expecting a 100% recovery. So the next visit is 3-2-09 (my oldest daughters b-day) and by then i will be almost 4 full weeks post-op and that much closer to weight bearing.
And for the wound, I couldn’t hardly see it the guy has tape all over it that he won’t take off till next time i see him. Here’s to a safe and speedy recovery to everyone!! emphasis on safe. I had to laugh the guy that put the cast on me was in the room most of time hearing me stress over re-rupturing he told me the story of some guy that wouldn’t listen to doctors orders he had to have surgery to repair the AT 3 times before he finally gave in and obeyed. That WON’T be me
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